Cloudflare and Vercel are both fantastic products, but the centralization of the global internet will inevitably lead to mass censorship

We need more decentralized internet infrastructure

Vercel's principal engineer verifying how @movistar_es and @LaLiga are blocking a whole country (Spain) from using their services.

This makes my blood boil, how TF is this allowed? I swear we live in China.

Cc: @Tebasjavier @levelsio

For those out of the loop:

There's a court order for all Spanish ISPs to block all of @Cloudflare addresses during weekends (and partly weekdays) in an attempt to block pirate football streaming sites. Essentially blocking half of the internet in Spain and disrupting businesses

Daniel 🐪

Cloudflare and Vercel are both fantastic products, but the centralization of the global internet will inevitably lead to mass censorship

We need more decentralized internet infrastructure

https://x.com/onticdani/status/1912121870519849151

cofounder & coo @earthfast – building vercel for crypto. prev: founding eng @audius

crazy that they just had the ISPs block all cloudflare and vercel IPs and the even crazier thing is a VPN bypasses the block